Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Constructing childhood in early Chinatown : image versus reality
  • The immigration of Chinese children and the Chinese question
  • Recentering the Chinese family in early Chinese American history
  • For the family back home : Chinese children at work
  • Challenging segregation : Chinese children at school
  • Articles of contention : Chinese children in the missions and courts
  • Children of the new Chinatown
  • Conclusion: Constructing the future.